Gothic architecture

Noun

Meaning

a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

gothic High Renaissance

Hypernyms

architectural style style of architecture type of architecture

Hyponyms

perpendicular perpendicular style English-Gothic English-Gothic architecture

Examples

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on. Marshall McLuhan

It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage. William Mackergo Taylor

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising. Bayard Taylor

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture. James Wyatt

Close letter words and terms

gothic antiquity gothic arc Gothic arch gothic atmosphere gothic building design gothic buildings